Octopus Attacks!

Victoria Travel Blog

We have just spent two days on
Vancouver Island in Victoria. The place is quite small but has a
surprisingly large emo crowd amongst the teenagers. The first full
day we had we decided to go check out the BC Museum as we had heard a
lot good things about it. It had a extensive totem pole collection
and a full size replica mammoth which was part of their Living Earth
Living Sea exhibit. It also included a section on weather climate and
how mans use of fossil fuels is warming up the planet and showed
whast effects this would have on the planet and all the animals,
plants and ecosystems.

Baby Goats!

The top floor had an exhibition on the early
history of BC, detailing how the British came and took over from the
early settlers.

The next day we took a walk down to the
coast line. We went via Beacon Hill Park and stumled over a cute
little farm, similar to an early Deen City Farm. The had an amazing
collection of peacocks roaming the place, a few rabbits and guinea
pigs, teo pot bellied pigs, a donkey, a shetland pony (which for some
reason they were saying was a miniture horse!?!) and several goats,
which included newborn kids!! There were quads that were 5 days old
and they were adorable. There were also some older kids who were
allowed out to mingle with the people n the petting area so we had
great fun stroking them and getting our jackets nibbled.

After we continued down to the
coastline and once we got down there we decided we would follow it
along and proceeded to clamber over rocks, driftwood and outcroppings
rather than keep climbing up and down the stairs. It was fun, Rachel
kept stopping to peer into rock pools, hoping to spot weird and
exotic marine life. The most we saw was a few small fish and two tiny
crabs. We then got to the beachy parts (which were pebble *sigh*) and
everywhere were long tenticle like debris. They looked like octopus
tenticles, without the suckers. They were EVERYWHERE and HUGE. Rachel
said they were weird seaweed things but I think it was mass octopus
suicide! *shudders*.